TransformerBee.MCP

This is a simple PoC of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for transformer.bee, written in Python.

Under the hood it uses [python-mdc](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk) and [transformerbeeclient.py](https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/TransformerBeeClient.py).

Installation

You can install the MCP server as Python package or pull the Docker image.

Install as Python Package

uv install transformerbeemcp

or if you are using pip:

pip install transformerbeemcp

Install as Docker Image

docker pull ghcr.io/hochfrequenz/transformerbee.mcp:latest

Start the Server via CLI

Python

_The package ships a simple CLI argument to start the server.

In a terminal **inside the virtual environment in which you installed the package (here myvenv)**, call:

(myvenv) run-transformerbee-mcp-server

Docker

docker run --network host -i --rm -e TRANSFORMERBEE_HOST=http://localhost:5021 ghcr.io/hochfrequenz/transformerbee.mcp:latest

(For the environment variables -e ..., see below or the transformerbeeclient.py docs.)

Register MCP Server in Claude Desktop

If you checked out this repository

cd path/to/reporoot/src/transformerbeemcp
mcp install server.py

If you installed the package via pip/uv

Modify your claude_desktop_config.json (that can be found in Claude Desktop menu via "Datei > Einstellungen > Entwickler > Konfiguration bearbeiten"):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "TransformerBee.mcp": {
      "command": "C:\\github\\MyProject\\.myvenv\\Scripts\\run-transformerbee-mcp-server.exe",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_HOST": "http://localhost:5021",
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_CLIENT_ID": "",
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_CLIENT_SECRET": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

where C:\github\MyProject\.myvenv is the path to your virtual environment where you installed the package and localhost:5021 exposes transformer.bee running in a docker container.

Alternatively, if you haven't configured this handy CLI command

https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/TransformerBee.mcp/blob/c0898769670469df13f23b57a55fe4b71ed9795b/pyproject.toml#L101-L102

you can just call python with non-empty args.

Note that this package marks uv as a dev-dependency, so you might need to install it pip install transformerbeempc[dev] in your virtual environment as well as a lot of MCP tooling assumes you have uv installed.

For details about the environment variables and/or starting transformer.bee locally, check [transformerbeeclient.py](https://github.com/Hochfrequenz/TransformerBeeClient.py) docs.

If you installed the package via Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "TransformerBee.mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--network",
        "host",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_HOST=http://localhost:5021",
        "ghcr.io/hochfrequenz/transformerbee.mcp:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_HOST": "http://localhost:5021",
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_CLIENT_ID": "",
        "TRANSFORMERBEE_CLIENT_SECRET": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

I'm aware, that using the --network host option is a bit hacky and not best practice.